‘Xbox hardware is dead’ and ‘there’s literally no reason to buy’ the ROG Xbox Ally handheld says founding member of the OG Xbox team

Laura Fryer describes herself as one of the founding members of the original Xbox team. She’s long since left, but she has a very gloomy message for Xbox fans: “Personally, I think Xbox hardware is dead.” Fryer is commenting on all the recent news about the future of Xbox, which includes everything from the new…

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Anthropic tasked an AI with running a vending machine in its offices, and it not only sold some products at a big loss but it invented people, meetings, and experienced a bizarre identity crisis

‘Never send a human to do a machine’s job,’ says Agent Smith in the 1990s classic The Matrix. Well, if Anthropic’s experiment with a simple office store and one of its AI models is anything to go by, Smith has definitely got that all back to front. The artificial intelligence company, founded by former OpenAI…

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Obsidian director Josh Sawyer says it’s a ‘mistake’ for RPGs to sacrifice crunchy ‘sweaty boy’ systems in favour of a ‘one size fits all’ game, since easier difficulties aren’t too hard to make

Dear reader, I need to confess something to you. I have never done a proper playthrough of Skyrim. I’ve booted the game up countless times, gotten a few hours deep, and felt a kind of malaise drag me away. It’s nothing personal—I just need more crunch out of my RPGs. Josh Sawyer, studio design director…

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BG3 might be the last hurrah for the era of the Hexblade, as D&D’s 2024 rules revamp tries to dethrone the king of multiclass dips

The Hexblade is king—anyone who’s been playing D&D since 2017 knows this, though Baldur’s Gate 3 players were only introduced to the Warlock subclass in Patch 8. D&D 2024’s now taking steps to dethrone it, as seen in June’s Unearthed Arcana rules—free playtests released to the public for balance passes. For the uninitiated, the Hexblade…

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Anker recalls a number of power banks amid safety fears, though it says that ‘the likelihood of malfunction is considered minimal’

Rechargeable lithium-ion cells power almost every aspect of our portable lives, as they can be found in practically every smartwatch, phone, laptop, and handheld gaming PC. We use them constantly and rarely experience problems, but given how much energy they store, when they do go wrong, you need to get them replaced pronto. That’s exactly…

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The Blood of Dawnwalker: All the key details about Rebel Wolves’ dark fantasy action RPG

The Blood of Dawnwalker has been announced as the next project from Rebel Wolves, offering an open-world RPG set in medieval Europe. But, rather than being your standard sword-swinging adventure, there’s a significant twist. You will play as Coen, someone plagued with being half-human and half-vampire—known as the “Dawnwalker”—and you best believe that there’s a…

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